Thundermail seems cool at least

Thunder* is developed by a separate corporation, they’re just both subsidiaries of the mozilla foundation. Also mzla is pretty much financially independent due to individual donations.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/

as an encrypted email service.

You can send e2ee emails with thunderbird.

I’ve got no issues with helping people in need, but even if it’s not an embezzlement scheme, this is extremely bad prioritization unless their priority is publicity.

MDN is a proven resource that’s helped a lot of people learn to code. How many African translators can you hire for a milion a year, let alone like 8? How many more people would learn to code that way?l

But nah, let’s feed money into “partners” that use some experimental teaching methods, while destroying a crucial learning resource because corona made us broke.

Edit: fact checked myself and the corp killed MDN, and they’re paying the foundation to do projects like this through royalties.

In 2020 they fired the entire MDN writing team, slashed the budget, and basically left it in maintainance mode. The same year the foundation decided to drop millions on teaching Africans to code or some shit…

IMO for personal use “drag and drop into the correct directory” is an infinitely better organisational system than tag based libraries, especially for pirated books. I’m not going to sync my books across 10 different devices since I don’t need more than 1 reader, so it doesn’t make any sense for me to waste time using tags, let alone fix them for every book I download.

Clara colour is also awesome if you’re not reading exclusively bw. It does have slightly worse low light visibility because of the filter layers though.

Did they also force them to kill MDN, buy pocket, or funnel 99% of the foundation’s budget on everything that’s not Firefox?

Edit: fact checked myself and the budget part is completely incorrect. The foundation just leeches on the corporation through yearly royalties.

As far as I’m aware, fedora is a public project and not a org that is “owned” by anyone.

Yeah, RH only owns the fedora trademark, provides the infrastructure, pays for the salaries, and is the biggest funder of the org by far. It’s totally independent…

You’ve got to do a great bit of mental gymnastics to arrive at your conclusion just to try and make me feel stupid. Why?

If you feel stupid for not knowing basic information that’s your issue.

Also don’t act like there aren’t serious implications of imposing age checks in supposedly free libre software. Libre software should be a fundamental human right. You can believe in that and also that military interventionism is also bad.

Do remind me why you made this post? You can act virtue signal all you want, the fact is that you’re morally outraged about only one of those things. And since you’re this butthurt, I’m guessing my comment making fun of it really hit the spot.

I will not use a distribution that complies with this law because I believe it is morally compromised.

RH owning Fedora and funding it by making the American army more efficient at killing civilians - perfectly fine

Fedora will probably comply with the equivalent of a teen setting their age to 130 to watch porn - morally compromised

I’d be more worried about literally upstream bug testing for the DoD…

If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.

Got it, don’t drink cappuccino after 11, only espresso.

• Italians

Meanwhile I’m on my second Logitech in 15-20 years.

I don’t know about how they compare in scale, but corpos were spending billions on business AI solutions, and there were specialised technologies that died when the bubble burst.

Have you seen any comparisons to the previous AI bubbles and winters?

You missed the overpriced and underpowered part. In the EU, the pinephone pro cost 600€, the same as the fairphone 6, and it’s significantly worse in every single way. Even if it actually worked, who in their right mind would pay that much for a device that’s going to run out of ram as soon as you open a few tabs in Firefox?

They base a lot of their development on the community though. So if the community isn’t up to it, then virtually no one at Pine64 is.

I doubt they’ll be fixing anything since they seem to have stopped selling them.

Also, if we go by their track record with the pinetime, PRs fixing basic functionality will be left open for years. Like how they can’t be bothered to accept fixes allowing the stopwatch to run in the background and not reset when you get a notification, let alone QoL improvements like being able to tell the time on your watch while the stopwatch is running.

I was on board the Fairphone hype, and while I think they have a good message, I actually think Pine64 does exactly what they do - just without the flashy marketing.

Exactly what they do, except it’s not a functional product. “Overpriced, underpowered, and half-finished” is the motto of pine64.

My NixOS config works this way

nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade for system package upgrades and config changes

home-manager switch for user package updates and config changes

lemon soda

How bout you squeeze a lemon and mix the juice with soda water?

Great points about learning, but I’m just explaining what my original comment was about: daily experience of using a distro and reliability.

For me arch installation was the most educational Linux experience since after 10+ years of using Linux, that was the first time I clearly understood each part of the system. But tbh that knowledge has so far been mostly academic - knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

All this comparing and inter-distro warring seems pointless.

It’s got a point when every thread has people recommending arch, even when it’s not relevant in any way. We’re talking about arch in a thread about a nixos guide after all.

But there is in nixos you donkey…

There’s not a lot of competition in the bleeding edge rolling distro space, so I think it’s fair to compare them. Especially since you’re not forced to make it reproducible.

I wouldn’t suggest either to beginners either though.

I’m talking about day to day usage. Arch installation is a good learning experience, but running it for me was more trouble than it’s worth.

The worst issue I’ve had so far with nix is an update failing before it’s applied because of some package. Meanwhile arch would regularly update, and then fail to boot or break something.

I gave up on arch after a few years when I had to literally weigh whether -S or -Syu would be more likely to mess up my system while I was working abroad.